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biographical history: Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone de Beauvoir. In 1963 he married French actress Judith Magre. Later, he married Angelika Schrobsdorff, a German-Jewish writer, and then Dominique Petithory in 1995. He is the father of Angélique Lanzmann, born in 1950, and Félix Lanzmann (1993-2017). Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah, is widely regarded as the seminal film on the subject of the Holocaust. He began interviewing survivors, historians, witnesses, and perpetrators in 1973 and finished editing the film in 1985. In 2009, Lanzmann published his memoirs under the title"Le lièvre de Patagoni" (The Patagonian Hare). He was chief editor of the journal"Les Temps Modernes" which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, until his death on July 5, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/claude-lanzmann-changed-the-history-of-filmmaking-with-shoah Ruth Elias (1922-2008) was born Ruth Huppert in Moravska Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, to Friedrich (Fritz) Huppert and Malvina Ringer and had an older sister, Edith (b. 1920). Following the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia, Fritz paid a Czech farmer to allow him and his daughters to work on a farm in Pozorice near Brno. In 1942 the family was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto where she married her boyfriend, Koni, and she became pregnant. Ruth and Koni were transferred to the family camp at Auschwitz. After Ruth gave birth to a baby girl, an SS doctor ordered the baby to be starved as a medical experiment. In October 1944, Ruth was transferred to Taucha, a sub camp of Buchenwald, where she met Kurt Elias, another Czech prisoner. When the camp …
has beginning date: 1979-01-01
has beginning date: 1985-01-01
has end date: 1979-12-31
has end date: 1985-12-31
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note: Staff-curated clips include: Clip 1, Film ID 3113, 02:01:18 - 02:09:21 Clip 2, Film ID 3115, 04:03:11 - 04:11:00 Clip 3, Film ID 3116, 05:00:03 - 05:18:07 Clip 4, Film ID 3117, 06:00:10 - 06:20:36 Clip 5, Film ID 3117, 06:20:37 - 06:33:45 Clip 6, Film ID 3118, 07:00:07 - 07:18:32 Clip 7, Film ID 3118, 07:28:37 - 07:33:52 (original audio is problematic at the beginning of this clip) Film ID 3118 contains a duplication of content from 20:40-28:31.
note: Ruth Elias is in SHOAH (1985). The parts of her interview in the final release are not available at USHMM. Claude Lanzmann spent twelve years locating survivors, perpetrators, and eyewitnesses for his nine and a half hour film Shoah released in 1985. Without archival footage, Shoah weaves together extraordinary testimonies to render the step-by-step machinery of the destruction of European Jewry. Critics have called it"a masterpiec" and a"monument against forgetting" The Claude Lanzmann SHOAH Collection consists of roughly 185 hours of interview outtakes and 35 hours of location filming.
note: Ruth Elias's book about her experience published in 1998 is called"Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel"
scope and content: Ruth Elias was a Czech Jew who was sent with her family to Theresienstadt, where she became pregnant. She managed to hide her condition in Auschwitz but was eventually discovered and she and her baby were experimented upon by Mengele. She speaks of these experiences and of her solidarity with other women prisoners. FILM ID 3112 -- Camera Rolls #1-2 -- 01:00:13 to 01:14:46 Ruth Elias tells of her early life growing up in Czechoslovakia. She describes the Germans entering Czechoslovakia in 1939. The foreman of her father's factory immediately seized it from him and the family lost their flat. Her father avoided being sent to Nisko and they lived in hiding in the countryside. On 4 April 1942 they were caught and sent to Theresienstadt, where she was housed in a large room in the Hamburger Kaserne with many other women. FILM ID 3113 -- Camera Rolls #3-4 -- 02:00:13 to 02:10:53 [CLIP 1 BEGINS] Seven days after arrival her entire family was summoned for a transport but she became ill and could not go. Her father insisted that she go, so she married her boyfriend in order to stay. The rest of her family went on the transport and she never saw them again [CLIP 1 ENDS]. FILM ID 3114 -- Camera Rolls #5-9A -- 03:00:12 to 03:33:50 She became a trainee nurse and her husband joined the Ghettowache. Lanzmann asks her about the experience of the elderly in Theresienstadt. She received a card from her father saying that her mother had been shot before his eyes. She was hungry all the time and decided to leave nursing to become a cook so that she could be near food. She and the others sang in the kitchen as they worked. FILM ID 3115 -- Camera Roll #10 -- 04:00:14 to 04:11:15 She demonstrates for Lanzmann one of the songs they used to sing, and accompanies herself on the accordian. [CLIP 2 BEGINS] She says that she was able to live with her husband and another couple and in the summer of 1943 she became pregnant. She tried to have an abortion but it had recently been officially forbid…
title: Ruth Elias - Theresienstadt, Auschwitz